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Often times, we have mixed feelings about our jobs and a hard time figuring out whether to stay or look for a different position. If you want to do some soul-searching, ask yourself the 10 questions on this career cheat sheet.

Drawn up by communications specialist Sarah Kathleen Peck, the flowchart asks things like if the job makes you feel challenged and whether the people in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Subject: Career

Job interviews are stressful, not least of all because it’s hard to tell if you’re on your way to the next round or being crossed off the short list altogether. In a first interview, it’s very rare for an HR person or hiring manager to offer you a job right off the bat. But there are some signs that you might be getting a call … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Amy Levin-Epstein | Source: CBS News | Subject: Interviewing

At the end of most job interviews, you’re asked a seemingly innocuous, open-ended question: “Do you have any questions for me?” That may seem straightforward enough, but in fact there are many ways to go astray.

One obvious mistake is not asking anything at all, which shows that you haven’t given any serious thought to the possibility of employment at this particular organization. The second is … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Amy Levin-Epstein | Source: CBS News | Subject: Interviewing

Most people know by now that networking beats answering job ads, but how you go about it can make all the difference. Here’s what to avoid.

Content: Career Information | Author: Anne Fisher | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Networking

The difference between a great career and a bad one is a couple of things every so often you elect to say or not say or do or not do.

Content: Quotation | Author: John McCallum | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Career

As executives become more senior, they are less likely to receive constructive performance and strategic feedback. They can get it by calling on their junior colleagues.

Content: Article | Author: Robert S. Kaplan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Bryan Power is a hiring expert who has worked in various areas of recruiting at Google for more than six years. In this interview he discusses what major companies look for in applicants and how you can make your resume stand out from the crowd.

Whether you’re unemployed, a recent college graduate, or unhappy at your current position, you can learn what it takes to get … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Authors: Bryan Power, Robert Pagliarini | Source: CBS News | Subject: Job Search

As you know, preparation is the key to doing well on a job interview and hirers tend to ask the same kinds of questions. This job interview one-sheeter is like a CliffsNotes for getting your strategic answers together.
Shared by Jenny Blake of LifeAfterCollege, the Google Docs template covers seven key questions or topic areas for you to bullet-point your examples, including how you’re suited for … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subject: Interviewing

Chances are, you are woefully unprepared for that upcoming interview and you don’t even know it. Talking points rehearsed? Check. Company and interviewer researched? Of course. Answers to tough questions practiced? You bet. Psychological tells analyzed? Uh, come again?
Without knowing it, you communicate your deep psychological beliefs, attitudes and weaknesses every time you open your mouth. I’ve interviewed people who looked stellar on paper, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Robert Pagliarini | Source: MoneyWatch | Subject: Interviewing

Josh Kaufman investigates several lists of skills that make an “educated person.”

Content: Article | Author: Josh Kaufman | Source: Personal MBA | Subject: Career

Employers and hiring managers are turning more than ever to resume screening software, thanks to the overwhelming number of job applications they get. It pays to know how these systems (called Applicant Tracking Systems or Automated Resume Screeners) work so you can make your resume more relevant to the job you’re applying for. Here’s a brief overview of how the software analyzes your resume and … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Resumes

In the business world everyone is paid in two coin: cash and experience. Take the experience first, the cash will come later.

Content: Quotation | Author: Harold Geneen | Subject: Career

In his new book, Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success, HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong explores the world of “high-need-for-achievement professionals” or HNAPs—those for whom the constant, insatiable need to achieve can lead to anxiety and dysfunction. Plus: book excerpt.

Content: Article | Authors: Kim Girard, Thomas J. DeLong | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

I’ve interviewed thousands of potential employees and hired hundreds of them. Over time I developed the ability to quickly size up a candidate, sometimes even within a minute or two, based on one or two actions or comments. My snap judgments were rarely wrong.

I know what you’re probably thinking: “But that is so unfair.”

Fair enough. But keep in mind most interviewers do the same thing. … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Jeff Haden | Source: BNET | Subject: Interviewing

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Joesph Joubert | Subjects: Execution, Management, Personal Development, Work

At some point in our lives, we all interview for something — to get a scholarship to college, to get a job, to impress a publisher for that book you want to write, and thousands of other things.

The only problem is that most of the advice that you’ll find on job interviews is either so basic that it’s not useful or so ridiculous that it’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: James Clear | Source: Passive Panda | Subject: Interviewing

Richard S. Wellins, Paul Bernthal, and Mark Phelps of Development Dimensions International wrote in a 2005 article, “for the past two decades we have been trying to realize the benefits of empowerment, teamwork, recognition, people development, performance management, and new leadership styles.“

If you want to know why efforts to engage the workforce have failed so dismally, look again at that list. It contains not a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James Krohe Jr. | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Motivation, Work

How do we draw the best out of people when so many of the rules and practices in life have changed? How in today’s new world can people reach their best at their best, given the speed of life and the torrent of information and obligation? Is there a coherent, evidence-based plan that every person can use to bring the best out of themselves or … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Edward M. Hallowell | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

If you haven’t updated your resume in a while, you may be surprised by some of the changes in what recruiters and employers want to see.

Content: Career Information | Author: Anne Fisher | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Resumes

Where reputation comes from—and how to change yours.

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development